Why wash your hands? To fight a fearsome enemy


Everyone tells you – wash your hands! Keep them off your face! Why?

The virus cannot self-replicate. To survive it must get inside a human body. Through your eyes, through your nose, through your mouth. The virus invades your cells and re-purposes them as virus factories. The replicated virus then tries to jump to another human through your mucus and your saliva. It cannot survive for long outside a human body – maybe a few to forty-eight hours.

When you wash your hands, and when you avoid human contact you are not only protecting yourself. You are protecting everyone. You are denying COVID-19 a human host within which to replicate. You are killing the virus.

History shows these things will either kill us, or we kill them. It’s as simple as that. 



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